Sapphire follow-up – Faster results from modern SAP applications with lifecycle management

kellyemo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:59:00 GMT

Here’s the nirvana statement about the power of your SAP environment: SAP Environments thrive with precious business data. These are the corporate data jewels that are increasingly being used by organizations to create new revenue streams and to gain insights into business operations that when optimized can garner competitive advantage. Sounds compelling…

Getting better visibility into your business was one of the key themes at Sapphire 09 and SAP is providing a variety of development components and tools like SAP NetWeaver Development Studio, SAP Solution Manager and Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) all designed to help get better access and visibility into SAP business data and to better integrate third party tooling. This is good news.

Add to this, also at Saphire 09, customers consistently mentioned that they are embarking on projects to upgrade to the newer versions of SAP. Both Application modernization projects and projects like RunSAP, and Perfect Plant that will leverage existing SAP investments to operate business more efficiently are being undertaken more and more frequently.

However, good things don’t come easily and this is a good example. One of the most talked about challenges at Sapphire 09 was that attendees still did not have a good enough understanding of how to bridge the gap and communicate intents across their organizational silos such as development , QA and Operations in both SAP centric and heterogeneous landscapes. SAP tools provide useful mechanisms to develop the modern applications, out of the box services and components to be customized and support goals such as business data visibility, however as IT strives to re-use these components and artifacts, the gap between the development and production seems to be even wider.

HP SOA Systinet being a repository that reconciles the “different sources” of truth from development to operations can help to reduce the silos – the divide between development, QA and Production.

The integration of HP SOA Systinet with SAP Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) plus SAP NetWeaver Development Studio based on Eclipse (which also integrates with HP SOA Systinet) provides IT with a proven solution to synchronize information useful for the successful lifecycle management of services and components. Developers can search Systinet and find useful SAP and other services and related documents for re-use and testing and production teams have the metadata they need to more rapidly test and advance these new application components and services from development to deployment.

Ultimately, faster and better lifecycle management brings faster and better business results. Want to know how HP SOA Systinet and SAP Enterprise Service Repository are integrated? Access that information here. search for Systinet and find related documents.

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Sapphire follow-up – Faster results from modern SAP applications with lifecycle management